ABSTRACT

New materialist thought complicates humanist conceptions of agency that inform the trope of ‘change agent’ which has been foundational to the scholarship on teacher preparation for inclusive education. This paper describes a preliminary exploration of a new materialist approach to the narrative inquiry of teacher enactments of inclusion. I begin with a brief interpretivist account that privileges the agency of Elizabeth, a novice teacher prepared within a disability studies informed teacher preparation program. Subsequently, in a move characteristic of a new materialist diffractive reading, I read into and through that account using the framework of agential realism to situate Elizabeth among multiple human and non-human agents. I argue for debility as a foundational construct to foster new ways of understanding teacher agency for inclusion.

摘要

新唯物主义思想使人本主义的能动性概念复杂化，这种概念为“变革推动者”的比喻提供了依据，而“变革推动者”一直是全纳教育教师准备学术研究的基础。本文描述了一种新的唯物主义方法对教师包容性行为的叙事探究的初步探索。我从一个简短的解释主义帐户开始，该帐户特权伊丽莎白的代理机构，一位在残疾研究知情教师准备计划中准备的新手教师。随后，在一个新的唯物主义衍射阅读的特征中，我使用代理现实主义的框架阅读并通过该帐户将伊丽莎白置于多个人类和非人类代理之间。我为虚弱辩护作为一个基础结构，以培养新的方式来理解教师机构的包容性。